With all due respect, there is a Ukrainian leader in Ukraine. After all, he is said to be following in well-worn footsteps in that country, which is why some questioned why Julia Tymoshenko should presume to lead the country when in the eyes of many she qualifies as just another ‘oligarch’.
If the man can dance well, you can call him an African but however many African rulers there may be living in Pharaonic palaces and marble halls, greed, excess and waste are not uniquely African traits. Or do I say that a lot of Ukrainians seem to have infiltrated the seats of government in Africa?
On 26 Feb 2014, at 14:02, Akurang-Parry, Kwabena <KAParr@ship.edu> wrote:
--An there is an "African leader" in the Ukraine!An Unfinished Ukraine Palace and a Fugitive Leader’s Folly
LASPI, Ukraine — Chased from his sumptuous villa outside the Ukrainian capital and last sighted searching for a sanctuary here on the Crimean Peninsula, Viktor F. Yanukovych, the former president, suffered a final indignity on Tuesday: The masons and electricians he had hired to build a Pharaonic seaside retreat in a historic, old-growth forest decided that he would never pay his bills and started hauling away their equipment and materials.The mansion, still under construction but even bigger than the palatial presidential residence outside Kiev that was overrun by protesters over the weekend, had been at least two years in the making, a gargantuan folly of excess just down the Crimean coast from the former summer palace of Russia’s toppled imperial family. The main hall has a 40-foot-high ceiling and majestic view of the Black Sea, while living quarters downstairs feature an indoor swimming pool, a big hole for a hot tub and walls thick enough to withstand an armed attack.
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